Bench-hook



Pa.tented Jan. 10, 1888.

UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE ANDREAS P. MILLSPAUGH, OF DARIEN,CONNECTICUT.

BENCH-HOK.

SPECIPICATION forming pari: of Letters Patent No. 376,331, datel Januafy 10, 1888.

Appiicaton filed August 23, 1887. Serie] No. 247,683. (No model.)

T aZZ wh0m it may concern:

Be ib known that I, ANDREAS P. MILLS- PAUGH, a eitizen of the United States, residing ab Daiien; inthe county of Fiifield and State of Counecticut, have invented cerbain newand useful Improvements in Bench-Hooks; and I do hereby declare the foilowng to be a full, elear;andexact descripsion 0f the invenbion, sueh as Wi1l enabie others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

My inventi0n relates t0 certnin new and useful imprwements in benchhooks f0r caipenters and joinersuse, and has for its object to provide a device of this description which shail be cheap and smple in its construction, which shaii be capable of quick and easy adjustment for the accommodation of boards of varying thickness, and whieh, when placed in position, shall be incapable of accidental changetherefrom; and with these ends in view my invention consists in the details of construction hereinaftersetforth, and then recited in the claims.

In order that such as are sklled in the art; to which my invention appertains may understand how to make and use myimprovemenb, I will describe the Same in detail,reference being had to the acconnpanying drawings, forming 21. part of this specification, and in whieh Figurelis a perspective view of my device in position; Fig. 2, a centxal vertical section thereof with the 110011 down, and Fig. 3 a simiia-r view with the hook raised.

Like parts are den'oted by like figures of reference in ail the views.

1 is a holiow box 01 casing open at bothends nd preferabiycast out of iron.

readiy in the casing, and 5 thehook-biade secured to the top of said shank. Upon the side designed te be next -the recess within the casing the hook-shank is racked, as shown at 6. 7 is a key adapted in form to the recess 3, and having formed bhereon one or more teeth,

S, arranged to fib the teetzh of the raak upon the hookshank.

In using my improvement the casting is tightly mortised into the bench and the benchplate iel; into the surface of the latter.

In arranging the honk for the support of w0rk the key is leid against the hookshank, with its toot;h 0x teeth engaging with the teeth of the mok. The shank end. key thus iaid together are then dropped into the cnsing. As soon as the end of the key strikes the bottom wail of the recess, it aan of course go no farther, and the shank is held as againsb further downward movement by the engagement of the key-teeth with the racked surface. By engaging the key with raak nearer to 01 farther i'rom the top of the shank the hook wil],

as wi1i be readly understood, project less or more above the surface of the bench, and be thereby adapted to accommodate thinner or thicker stock.

I h2we shown the shank as racked on its side and the casing recessed at its rear wall; bub I do not wish to be understood aslimting myself to the use of these adjacen; surfaces, snce my device een be arranged up0n any of the f0lll sides of the shank and casing, 01, it in should be found to be more advantageous, upon two sides. Ihe recess and key, moreover, may be of any desired shape anti conformataion.

Having thus described my invenbion, I claim- 1. In a,device of the character described, the combination, with the, h0ok and the racket] shank thereto attached, of the hollow casing recessed as to one of its side wails, said recess beir g open at; the top and adapted h0 receive thekey by inserbion of the ianter from above, and the toothed key adapted IJo mesh with the racked surface of the shank and to abut; against the end waii of the said recess, whereby theshank and hoek are seeured in position, substantially as set forth.

2. In a bench-hook, the hoilow casing having the bench-plate th ereto secured, said casing formed with a substantiaily recbanguiar recess in one of its sides said recess extending ICO to the top of the casng and provided with a downward movement, subsbantally 21s shown 10 lower end abubmenb-wall, in combinabiou wth and descrbed.

'011e hook-blade, t11e racked shank upon which In testmony whereof I afix my sgnature in said blade is supported, and the toothed key presence of two witnesses.

substantially confo1med '00 the shape of the T 4 J recess and adapted both t0 mesh with the AI\DRDAS MILLSI AUGH rackedsurface of the shank and to abutagansb \Vituesses: the smid end wa11 of the recess, whereby t11e S. H. HUBBARD,

shank is locked to the casing as aganst: any S. S. WILLIAMS0N. 

